Re: semi OT: Server question

by Brian V Bonini <b-bonini(at)cox.net>

Date:	06 Dec 2002 09:11:19 -0500
To:	Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Cc:	susanfriesen(at)telus.net, HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	telus D1C4FN01
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On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:25, Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>     Paid support not available (but  there are numerous mailing lists)

Remember, some *NIX's are commercial and just about all offer optional
paid support plans. However the open source community is amazing and
often there is no topping the support you get there. Look at PHP for
example, you can get replies from the original author himself on the PHP
developers lists, try getting a reply from Bill Gates directly about a
MS product, not that he'd have a reply worth a sh^% anyway... ;-)

>     Limited support for MS technologies

I run a full suite of Win apps via VMWare on our Linux workstations.

> > My question is: Linux, Unix, or Windows (NT or 2000) ??? Does anyone have
> > any concrete information/opinions that I could include in my report to
> > support either of these OS's?
> >

In a server environment there is no question that *NIX is king....

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